Will the likes of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro and Flash work on Apple's new free Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks?

Will the likes of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro and Flash work on Apple's new free Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks?

As with any OS update - Mac or Windows - your first thought is 'if I install this, will it bugger up my apps?'. Thankfully for Mac OS X 10.9 - which a lot of creatives are going to be downloading, as it's free - the answer is a firm no, with a few exceptions.

Adobe Creative Cloud on Mavericks

If you've signed up for Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription service, all applications apart from After Effects will run fine, according to Adobe. After Effects CC requires an update to run properly, which can be downloaded through the Creative Cloud desktop application or as a patch.